Brand new bananas

THE EVER EVOLVING RELEASE PATTERNS OF THE ANTI LABEL ....

.... EVER FERMENTING

Dub wise thursday

Greetings in the name of dub.

Much activity at the KLan Hq today.

The Alaska Studio office office doubled up as a video location for a fourth coming sean t featuring roots manuva project- 'move your shoulder"

Perpetual Grind

Big rehearsal production day at banana HQ our spirited home Alaska Studios, Waterloo, London se1 8xe

Team Banana in action... rehearsing for New Zealand and Australia tour. 

Team Elastic of the talent source entity www.elasticartist.net

klan branded.....

Going, Gone and Truly Bananas

Green Bananas Are Good for You!!

Dub College (part two)

It's all based on Dub.

The deep structure of reggae music then restructured tweaked and twiddled.

Birthing genre within genre.

The initial inception was the b side of a vinal record - stripped down and manipulated with special effects: echo, reverb, feed back, chorus and flange. Cross reference to the root of the a side with edited vocal insights and often quite a brash vocal contortion. At first promtted by economics constraints on studio time: rather than record a next song the remix was born.

This mutation grew into  a much loved craft firstly honed by Jamaican mobile discoteques what is now known as sound systems and is still a thriving culture world wide.

Talking over B side instrumental recordings in free from lead to rehearsed vocal essays in all aspects of life from playful bragging to serious thoughts about anything.

Many people say they do not like reggae and can not see the object of non sung or half sung vocal expression let alone monotone metered dialog to the beat or off the beat. But this basic minimal musicality has birthed a much loved and hated vocal tradition many do it few master or understand the true essence of spoken intercourse.

Now with marketing terms like gangster rap and grime the old machine ghettoises and marginalises what should be considered one of the most ground breaking forms of linguistic discourse conveying a multi faceted massage of folk law and reason.

So many parallels for the dub it is proof of infinite sound scape. 

Klan lord Ricky Ranking and Dj diabilo say it in session

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VKQFXPOL

Attention in the class!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Banana Skins Ridim: test blend by various artist

Banana Skins Ridim: test blend �by� various artist

KLan family thing featuring beats by Strange Love:

Vocal renditions from- Lord Goshington, Ricky Ranking, Jimmy Screech, Sean T, Morrison ford, Connie Bell, Mc Scott, Rupert the ? and more.

This is just a ghetto taster dub test tape. Klan thing Banana Bang, bang.

Late January Download release of full version will be available at www.inzu.net/bananaklan

Audio murder clip by hylton Goshington

Audio murder clip �by� hylton Goshing

New riddim to be featured on Banana klan version clash experiment.... watch this space for the evolution of dub.

2010 belongs to rebel music.

2 peaces remix clip by Ricky Ranking

2 peaces remix clip �by� Ricky Ranking

This is a tune from out the great banana vaults by Ricky Ranking taken from a fourth coming album ceasefire. One of the many unreleased Ricky Ranking projects... this a sneak taster for the impatience crew.

Digital Bananas:

THE BRAND NEW DOWNLOAD SHOP:

the plan is to keep this as the digital pre-release domain.

proper hot press straight out the studio and ready for sale.

we only have 1 gig of storage.

pure rowdy non conventions.

Vintage Klan: THE Black Gold

Movement in Dub wise actuality ... Word, sound and power.
The art form mutates.

Linguistic currency.

Barber Shop Dialog on Tap:

Dub Plate= Tape, Cd, Dat, Mp3,

Welcome to the peoples Dub college

We use the term college in reference to our state of edutainage and learning. Banana klan is a school of thought. 

I hate to shatter the mystery contained in the unspoken massages and the sublime, sub text of the audio extent and these scribbles parading as essays are but the sum of the celebration that we part take in most thankful to the Dub Pioneers too many to mention :

Lee Scratch Perry

King Tubby

Aswad

The Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra

Krs One

Saxson International

London Posse

Ragga hip hop, Uk Hip hip, Grime, Drum and bass, Jungle Techno, Broken Beat, UK Bashment

and or whatever the new phrase will be do little to describe the true essence of what has taken place in what kind only be considered stifling , morally challenged, economically stretched and spiritually depletive times. 

Short comings and great advances this post second war British born and or conditioned populus has consistantly thrown up some futuristic re invention of convention within the mechanism of non convention.

And so with much to augment in the philosopical property of art and creative political gestation's Banana klan the collective unite in attempt to reclaim the DIY grass root ethics  of an era most people are too busy to give a dam about.

Run the track, crack the joke but find time to recognise the serious missed opportunity at stake in times of mindless apathetic non communal society break down and all out modern day savagery.

Whatever you choose.. be it to vocalise to it, dance to it, construct it, trade in it.. the class has evolved. We are living testaments to the Dub wise resonance .....